Personally Speaking: Don't use the death of a non-smoker to justify your own dangerous habit
TWO members of my family have died from lung cancer.
One lost her life decades ago, when I was so young that I can barely remember her. She was young, a similar age to my parents, and left behind a husband and a son who was only a few years older than me. Apparently she had never smoked.
I remember I used to be terrified that my own mum might die when I was out at school and not around to stop it from happening. I loved school but sometimes I'd pretend to be ill so that I could be around, just in case.
My family lost someone else to lung cancer just last year. She was in her 70s and had... read more
27 September 2016 in
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Source: The Sentinel
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